Co-Founder, President & CEO, EarthSong Communities

Vision and purpose fuel my leadership. I exist to instigate and implement paradigm shifts that positively impact generations to come. My life’s work is about redefining how we relate and connect with each other and the environment, and how we grow individually and collectively. I transform complex systems at their core. Throughout my career, I have founded and led real estate businesses, consistently materializing seemingly impossible miracles through passion, mental clarity, strategy, pragmatism, commitment, adaptability and infectious energy. I pride myself on integrity, living by the belief: Do good, and good will come.

My leadership roles in real estate have spanned visioning; strategic planning; rezoning, master planning, architectural and interior design; project management; project financing; investment fundraising; community, media and government relations; branding, sales, leasing and marketing; and operationalizing innovative approaches to building sustainable, interconnected communities. Cumulative project value across my years in residential real estate and masterplanned communities approaches $1 billion. I look forward to harnessing this experience to its fullest potential as I devote my life to EarthSong and amplifying its impact.

As CEO of The Cape on Bowen Community Development, I completed a 19-year, 618-acre project, transferring hundreds of acres from the private domain to the public domain. By cultivating values-aligned alliances with global leaders, and focusing on multilateral successes across all stakeholder groups, I sold nearly 300 acres at waterfront residential market value, proving that ecological preservation and economic viability can coexist. This outcome represented a complete paradigm shift from conventional residential development through openness, innovation, and collaboration.

As Co-Founder, Director and Vice President of Element Lifestyle Retirement, I conceived, designed, developed and operationalized the first intergenerational aging-in-place model in North America. My vision earned an international award among 950 retirement-focused projects assessed worldwide. Since 2019, my parents have resided in Opal by Element in Vancouver, where my mother, who has lived with Parkinson’s since 2008, thrives in a vibrant community where her neighbors are also her family. My mother’s remarkable experience living with Parkinson’s in this community validates a profound insight: compassionate connection fundamentally transforms the human experience and is critical to holistic wellbeing. It’s not the paid professional, physical care that is helping her most. Her quality of life and inner experience are enriched and uplifted by the people around her everyday – who see her, listen to her, understand her, encourage her, and who literally catch her when she falls. As my mother was my inspiration for Element’s intergenerational model of retirement living, she is also my inspiration for EarthSong Communities.

I am honoured as a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal, awarded to 30,000 select individuals across Canada for significant community contributions nationally. I serve as Chair of the BC & Yukon provincial board of the Heart & Stroke Foundation, a leading national non-profit, and Board Director of Community Evolution, a global non-profit that empowers local communities across 4 continents. My volunteer history began in my teenage years, serving patients and families in many retirement communities, and healthcare organizations such as St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Children’s Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre.

I am devoted to personal and spiritual development through daily mindfulness meditation, ceremony and connection to nature. I have raised Hayden, my now-teenage son, as a single mother since he was two years old, while building and nurturing businesses and communities. It is my interwoven personal and professional journey that drives my passion for fostering supportive, connected communities. Since he was five, my son has been deeply inquisitive about my work. I strive to create a lasting legacy not only through my vocational mission but also by modeling and nurturing his service-oriented heart, so that he, too, may build a life of meaning and fulfillment.